Objectives: The Wirral Assistive Technology Programme (WAT) has operated across the whole population of the Borough for 3 years. It includes the installation of telecare technologies such as falls alerts and movement sensors to prolong users’ independence and reduce use of secondary care. Qualitative evaluation of user and carer perspectives indicated a reduction in admissions as a result of th...

Juvenile Atlantic salmon from a landlocked population (‘Blege’, lake Byglandsfjord, south– central Norway) and an anadromous population (river Vosso, southwestern Norway) were reared in freshwater on simulated natural photoperiod (60j25VN) between December 2000 and June 2001. Fish from the Blege (mean length: 13.4 cm) and Vosso (mean length: 13.9 cm) strains were transferred to seawater tanks i...

The optimized molecular structures, harmonic vibrational wavenumbers, and corresponding vibrational assignments of 2-, 3and 4-cyanopyridines have been calculated using Gaussian 03 set of quantum chemistry code. Calculations were carried out at Becke-3-Lee-Yang-Parr (B3LYP) density functional theory (DFT) level using the standard 6-311++G(d,p)basis set. The geometrical parameters, thermodynamic ...

Some changes have been made in the departments of the series?physiological, bacteriological and pathological matters have been treated of in connection with the subjects to which they bear the closest relationship in practice. The volume before us?Volume I?deals with diseases of the respiratory and circulatory organs of the blood vessels and blood-making organs, with general infectious diseases...

A Pariser-Parr-Pople (PPP) Hamiltonian of an 87~ electron system of the molecule octatetraene, represented in a configuration-interaction basis (CI basis), is analyzed with respect to the statistical properties of its matrix elements. Based on this analysis we develop an effective Hamiltonian, which represents virtual excitations by a Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE). We also examine numerica...

The Hanford Reach of the Columbia River is a free flowing stretch that exists within the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south central Washington, USA. Operations at the reservation have resulted in contamination of ground water with chromium and other chemical and radiological constituents. Ground water discharges into the Columbia River occur in areas where chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawys...

a r t i c l e i n f o Swimming performance, metabolic rate, and the metabolic response to hypoxia were measured in stream-type spring Chinook salmon parr (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) that had been reared for up to 40 weeks on diets where varying levels of refined canola oil (CO) replaced anchovy oil and poultry fat as the source of supplemental dietary lipids. Thus, CO comprised either 0% (dAPF),...

The results of Parr and de Waal (1999) on male-offspring biased visual kin recognition in chimpanzees was replicated using both human judgements, and a principal components analysis (PCA) applied to pixel-maps. With the same matching to sample paradigm and stimulus sets as used by Parr and de Waal (1999), both humans and the PCA produced the same sex-biased kin recognition as that found with th...